Albright College (Pa.) received a $10,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development to purchase safety and security equipment for the campus. The new equipment includes a portable radio and radio control station that provides campus police officers with wider radio access. The college has also purchased a portable metal detector that will be used for campus events attended by the general public.
Daemen College (N.Y.) has been awarded a $155,984 grant for the Teacher/Leader Quality Partnership through the New York State Education Department. The Education and the Natural Sciences Department at Daemen are partnering with the Buffalo Public Schools and the Catholic Diocese to improve student achievement in math and science. This is the seventh year Daemen College has been awarded funds for this program for a total of more than $1 million since 1999.
Delaware State University’s Applied Optics Center received a $630,000 grant from the U.S. Defense Department to establish a multi-disciplinary research collaboration project with cancer researchers from Philadelphia’s Fox Chase Cancer Center. The ultimate goal of the three-year research program is to develop a test that will enable health professionals to diagnose ovarian cancer in its earliest stages.
Duke University (N.C.) received a $75 million gift from the Duke Endowment of Charlotte for student financial aid. This is the largest single gift made by the endowment in its 81-year history and the largest single gift ever received by the university. The Duke Endowment gift will be used as a matching fund incentive to spur additional contributions for financial aid.
Huston-Tillotson University (Texas) received $100,000 from Johnson Controls Inc. to support an environmental research center that will facilitate the establishment of a consortium and partnerships
to increase research opportunities in science, mathematics, and technology.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology received a $30,000 grant from the BellSouth Foundation for its comparative media studies department.
Moraine Valley Community College (Ill.) received two state-funded grants totaling $123,000 from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and the Illinois Department of Labor to continue offering assistance to area businesses and educational opportunities for homemakers needing to reenter the workforce.
